Comments on: Video: Bill’s Coke Commercial From 1995

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:05:12 +0000

I just recently started working at Microsoft. I wonder if this is the reason why pop is free at Microsoft buildings.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:22:30 +0000

#13 Once in your head, you can never stop a bad joke from being shared.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:08:40 +0000

If this commercial would have had Jobs in it, the apple fanboys would be lining up to praise how wonderfully original it was.

Pretty good commercial all in all. Better than that damn ‘hello’ iPhone commercial, that’s for sure.

By: John C Dvorak

John C Dvorak — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:11:39 +0000

Hey guys…open mic at the comedy club is usually on Wednesdays. Or is this just practice?

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:46:40 +0000

#2 wrong. Kool Aid is the one free thing there.

By: George

George — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:09:20 +0000

I recall this commercial showing up about the time an urban legend was going around about Bill G. being at a convenience store and being short on cash. To get the line moving again, a woman behind him gave the clerk what he was short. The story goes on that Bill didn’t even bother to thank her.

By: TJGeezer

TJGeezer — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:15:47 +0000

I wonder if they paid him for that, or if he did it to be funny. (if the latter, it worked.)

Maybe he’d just got onto the Coca Cola board of directors or something. There has got to be an interesting back story in their somewhere for the next guys to write a “Fire in the Valley” type of technoid history.

By: Cumqaut

Cumqaut — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:21:01 +0000

What I find most amusing about Bill is his voice. Mine voice stopped cracking at the end of puberty — is Billy still undergoing adolescence? He sort of reminds me of Walt Disney doing Mickey Mouse’s voice.

By: Billy Gee

Billy Gee — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:02:52 +0000

At Microsoft our vending machines carry the most popular brands like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc… Who wants to drink Apple only products like MacCola, Apple Juice, Lisa Spring Water… Sure you might have to reboot the coke machine every once in a while but it doesn’t take a paper clip to get the soda out.

By: MacBandit

MacBandit — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:37:20 +0000

Why didn’t he smash the Coke machine? Have you ever seen an enraged Coke machine!? A little geek like Bill wouldn’t have a chance. The machine would tear him limb from limb and dine on his organs. Just remember Coke machines are normally docile but to be safe avoid direct eye contact, don’t bare your teeth, and most of all avoid fast movements.

By: Jägermeister

Jägermeister — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:43:03 +0000

Classic.

By: Mike Knowland

Mike Knowland — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:31:08 +0000

What’s a quarter?

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:28:59 +0000

3 – Oh yeah….well, the vending machines at Apple are easier to use. And they don’t crash or get viruses.

By: Wanderley

Wanderley — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:22:58 +0000

Soft drinks are free at the Microsoft campus as well. That was the big irony of the commercial (not that the richest guy has no quarters).

They also have free clean towels in the locker room. That would’ve been a very disturbing commercial: Bill Gates can’t find a towel and has to roam thru campus with only a soft drink to cover himself.

By: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:18:07 +0000

Soft drinks are free for employees at Apple.